X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E94AD74.10208@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:56:20 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110928 Fedora/3.1.15-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.4 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: LC_COLLATE vs. egrep -- bug or (non-)feature? References: <4E949E1F.5020403@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 10/11/2011 02:49 PM, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > >> LANG=preferred LC_COLLATE=C >> >> and don't set LC_ALL. > > Hmm. Two remaining questions: > > 1) By 'preferred', I presume you mean my preferred setting, e.g. en_GB.utf8 Correct. > 2) _Where_ should I set those values? As far as I can tell I'm not > currently setting them at all. . . For individual users, ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.zshrc, or whatever other shell-specific startup files you use, works well. There's currently ongoing discussion about making cygwin's locale(1) program provide sane defaults based on the current Windows localization settings, which would then be incorporated into /etc/profile for system-wide default for all shells, but that thread hasn't yet settled on the final patches to use. For a single override, do so in the script needing the override (and that's where setting LC_ALL=C is most commonly seen - for example, all ./configure scripts sanitize the world to the C locale up front). -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple